Stalin, Joseph

Joseph Stalin was the soviet communist leader who’s passing molded an era, and whose iron rule determined the lives of millions of people. Considering that he shaped the direction of post-World War II Europe, we may regard him as the most powerful person to live during the 20th century. Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili on December 21, 1879, in Gori, Georgia . Both his parents were peasants. His father, Vissarion Dzhugashvili, was a cobbler, hopping …

…speech ” in the 20th party congress. Much of what Stalin and his politics represented, had been heavily criticized, and for the first time his elimination of millions of people had been exposed. Despite that, all of Stalin’s successors, although they denounced much of him and his ways, relied on his achievements to expand and preserve the power of the Soviet Union; and to his tactics in order to control the political and social mechanisms.